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Elemental Encounters in the Contemporary Irish Novel
Claire McGrail Johnston
其他書名
Reading as Touching
出版Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019-12-19
主題Literary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN15275446649781527544666
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=APjIDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The underlying premise of this book is that reading is touching. Words leap out of their beds and pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes within the dynamic of encounters with air, fire, earth and water, permeated by emotion, imagination and touch. These ideas are contextualized within ancient community rituals, social justice gatherings, pedagogical practices, and map-making. The four elements are retrieved from exile as imaginative, corporeal, and generative substances that operate within stories like medicine bundles. Reading becomes a Deleuzian ‘enterprise of health’, a challenging experience that grasps Paulo Freire’s generative themes, and is simultaneously thought-provoking and valuable. The capacious literary space capable of housing this sensual ferment is the novel. More verb than noun, the novel is an elemental bundle that engages with flesh in all its manifestations. This book spotlights Irish novels by John Banville and Mary Morrissy, exploring how they revitalise the elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.